Short breaks provide opportunities for children and young people with disabilities to take part in activities and work towards agreed outcomes, while also providing breaks for the parent/carer. They are commissioned by Sutton Council, which means that the Council identifies need, allocates resources and procures a provider to best meet those needs within the available means. Personal budgets...
Closes 6 October 2023
What is the Neighbourhood Fund? When developers create new housing, flats or retail space in Sutton they pay a levy to the Council. This money is to improve infrastructure within the borough, with a portion of this used specifically to improve local areas in consultation with residents, in Sutton we call this the Neighbourhood Fund . Neighbourhood Fund Projects should help address the...
Closes 15 October 2023
What is the Neighbourhood Fund? When developers create new housing, flats or retail space in Sutton they pay a levy to the Council. This money is to improve infrastructure within the borough, with a portion of this used specifically to improve local areas in consultation with residents, in Sutton we call this the Neighbourhood Fund . Neighbourhood Fund Projects should help address the...
Closes 15 October 2023
This survey is to help us understand the experiences of residents who have been subject to Safeguarding Enquiries under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014. You do not have to give your name or contact details unless you want to. Your responses will be collected and reviewed by a team that is separate from Adult Social Care. The findings will be shared with Adult Social Care managers and...
Closes 1 November 2023
Our Home to School Assisted Travel service provides support to help children and young people to travel to school or college when they would otherwise be prevented by disability or need. The service currently supports over 900 children and young people in Sutton. The service mostly supports children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who may find it more difficult to...
Closes 11 November 2023
Our children’s centres (Startwell) support children to have the best start in life. Since the pandemic we have changed the way that our children's centres operate and have brought some services out of the buildings and into the community, at places such as local libraries and community centres. This has helped to better support our families and has resulted in a 30% increase in the number of...
Closes 12 December 2023
Sutton Council is proposing to renew all its 17 Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) across the borough. Public Spaces Protection Orders were introduced under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime, and Policing Act 2014. They are aimed at addressing and preventing activities that impact on the...
Closed 18 August 2023
Libraries are changing and modernising their offer to ensure that the service continues to meet customer needs. Sutton Council invests nearly £3 million in the Sutton library service each year. We want to engage all residents on how they currently use libraries which will help explore better...
Closed 31 July 2023
Sutton children's centres are committed to supporting families with young children in the borough, helping to make sure that children are ready to start school. Since the Covid-19 Pandemic, we have adapted the way that we work and have brought some services out of the children's centre...
Closed 9 July 2023
Sutton Council has received concerns from ward councillors and members of the public regarding speeding issues in the Morton Gardens area shown below. The aim of the proposal is to reduce the risk of personal injury accidents, provide a safer environment for vulnerable road users,...
Closed 26 May 2023
Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes
We asked for feedback from Children’s Centre users, about the impact of Children’s Centre Services and the approach to running sessions in the community.
Children’s Centre users were overwhelmingly positive regarding the services and the impact they have on them and their family. Many users said they wanted to see more services in the community. A few people raised concern regarding our booking system and the start times of sessions.
We have reviewed the start times of various sessions for the September programmes, so there is more variation. We acknowledge the concerns related to the booking system and in response we have implemented a new approach. Tickets for each session are now released throughout the week rather than all in one go to allow for people to be able to book on at different times. We will continue to review the way we manage this. Your feedback will help us review our services going forward.
We asked for residents’ views on the Draft Learning Disability Strategy 2022-2027. This consultation was part of a much longer engagement period; the purpose was to validate what stakeholders had told us and check that the draft strategy reflected this.
There was support for the strategy and its priorities, while the feedback also emphasised the importance of having an overall delivery plan in place so as to ensure implementation of the key priorities.
Key themes which were incorporated into the final strategy are set out below.
The strategy was updated to reflect the consultation feedback, and a final version was adopted by the People Committee in December 2021. There were no material changes to the strategy as a result of the consultation - however we did make some small amendments and added emphasis to some areas as set out below:
Emphasising the link between Education and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) services and the transition to adulthood in the strategy.
Strengthening the wording around families and carers to emphasise the vital role they play.
Making it clearer that the section of the strategy about respite includes the needs of people with people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD).
Emphasising the importance of paid employment and the opportunity to consider how unpaid roles could develop into paid employment.
Including the acronym STOMP (Stop The Over Medication of People) when we talk about reducing unnecessary medication (reflecting the national NHS agenda).
Including the GP Champion in the foreword of the strategy, to emphasise the key role played by GPs.
We are developing a comprehensive plan with a series of workstreams to deliver the strategy. Progress will be overseen through relevant Council and partnership governance and reported back to the People Committee at least annually.
We asked what residents' priorities were for how to spend the Neighbourhood Fund to improve community infrastructure.
You indicated priorities, voted on council-proposed projects and gave your own suggestions for improvements to fund.
We are using the feedback to make a list of projects recommended for funding approval. We are also reporting suggested improvements to service departments.